Downing v. First National Bank of Lake City

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• failure to produce original note \precluded entry of a valid decree and could be raised by the defendants even though a decree pro confesso had been entered against them.\
• “It was incumbent on appellee to produce the original [] note or to make a satisfactory explanation for failure to do so. Not having done so, it was reversible error for the trial court to enter the decree of foreclosure against the wife.”

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